Today is Mr. Feng Jicai
80th birthday
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It is also the time he has spent since he taught at Tianjin University
22nd birthday
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Mr. Feng Jicai, 80, and his 105-year-old mother celebrated their birthday together
Xiao Tian brought one for everyone
Mr. Feng Jicai accepted it a few days ago
A reporter from Beijing Youth Daily reported
Devoted to painting, literature, cultural heritage protection and education "four carriages"
Feng Jicai: I am 80 years old this year, and I lack time
Zhang Jia, a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily
On the ninth day of the second month of the lunar calendar this year (March 11), Mr. Feng Jicai will celebrate his 80th birthday. On March 4, in an interview with a reporter from the Beijing Youth Daily, Mr. Feng told reporters that he and his mother had made an appointment, and at noon on his birthday, the two of them ate noodles together.
"This morning, I also went to see my mother, who is 105 years old. I find it rare that I'm 80 years old and can still visit my mom. When it was noon on March 11, my mother and I ate noodles together, and I thought it was a special and profound scene, and I would have a lot of touches, and maybe I would write down my feelings about eating noodles in the future. ”
Feng Jicai spent his life wandering in the four fields of painting, literature, cultural heritage protection and education, and he called it the "four carriages". For almost 20 years, he became invisible from the literary world and devoted himself to the rescue of folk cultural heritage, and now due to his age, Mr. Feng can no longer run around for the protection of cultural heritage, so he returns to literature and becomes a "prolific writer". Mr. Feng said that returning to literature is not to give up the protection of cultural heritage, "this will be my life's work", he lamented that he does not lack anything now, "just lack time." ”
I like to be at every important point in life,
Live a little "deeper"
Mr. Feng believes that everyone has some life nodes to commemorate, such as birthdays, days of admission to college, days of graduation work, and wedding anniversaries that he values, etc. "I like to live a little 'deeper' at every important node in life. Engrave a mark on the memory and let life have a little more vertical things. I think sometimes people work hard to leave some memories for the future, so I hope to do something at an important juncture to stay. ”
How does he plan to spend his 80th birthday, an important milestone? Mr. Feng said that he did not want to live too ordinary, "For example, some people have an 80th birthday, many people wish him a birthday, he put on a Tang costume, there is a birthday star in the back, next to the fruit basket, flowers, everyone bows to him to worship the birthday, I don't want to live like this, I want to add something." ”
Eighty this day. Idle time eighty, busy eighteen, always busy.
For "adding a little something", Mr. Feng has two ideas, one is to eat noodles with his 105-year-old mother, and the other is to hold an event at the Feng Jicai Literature and Art Research Institute, "This activity is not to wish me a birthday, but to talk about my birthday and do a little research." There are many writers who have left their hometowns when they grow up, and since I was born, I have basically been in the land of Tianjin. I would like to have a discussion, through my relationship with Tianjin, to discuss what kind of relationship is it between intellectuals and his homeland, and the people in his homeland? I think that doing such a discussion may make sense for literature and for writers. ”
Mr. Feng believes that when tracing a person's spiritual origin, it must be inseparable from the influence of his parents and hometown, "My mother is a native of Jining, Shandong, this place in Jining is wen and wu, Wen refers to the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, and Wu is Shuipo Liangshan. My father is from Ningbo, and his family has been a literati or an official for generations. I think that the two cultures of my parents have an influence on me, Shandong people attach great importance to righteousness, especially heavy righteousness, thick and loyal, and Shandong culture has a masculine atmosphere. Ningbo people are more delicate and pay attention to the culture of filial piety, so I attach importance to my homeland, and at the age of 80, I want to study the relationship between an intellectual and the land. ”
In Mr. Feng's view, the influence of parents on children is not a matter of a few words, "it will affect your bones and spirit." When I was 50 years old, I held a painting exhibition in my hometown of Ningbo, named 'Respect for the Hometown Painting Exhibition', which is to respect my hometown, respect my hometown, that is the birthplace of my life. ”
Mr. Feng laughed and said that the first time he sold paintings was in his hometown of Ningbo, when he saw that the He Secret Prison Ancestral Hall built to commemorate the Tang Dynasty poet He Zhizhang was very dilapidated, but there was a lack of repair costs, so he selected 5 of his favorite paintings from the exhibition, and after selling them, he repaired the He Secret Prison Temple. Mr. Feng said happily: "If it is not repaired, it may be demolished, and after repairing it, it will be given to Ningbo Wenlian, and now it has become a very important cultural and tourism attraction in Ningbo." I did this without any utilitarianism, because I loved it, because it was my hometown thing. ”
The study and the studio are at opposite ends of my porch,
It was a sweet round trip
Following the launch of "A World in the Study Room" two years ago, Feng Jicai's "Studio a Cave In the Sky" was newly launched by the Writers Publishing House. Compared with other works, Mr. Feng said that these two essay collections are the most easily written, "I have recently written some strange novels, so I wrote "Study World" and "Studio One Cave Sky" to relax myself. It is very easy to write, like those Song people's notes, but I also pay more attention to language, using some white-drawn language, very simple and not sculpted, not deliberate language to write, write a rhyme in ordinary life. ”
The study and the studio are the two places that Mr. Feng must stay every day, and every object in it is with him day and night, "I know the story inside each thing, I know what is worth writing, it is meaningful and cannot be ignored." Some memories when I write it cause some nostalgia in my heart, and there may be some sad things, but it will not make me cry. Because when people reach the age of seventy or eighty, they will feel all the things of the past, no matter whether they are happy or sad, and eventually they will slowly become a kind of poetry, and in the text, there is another kind of poetry. ”
Mr. Feng Jicai's
Study and gallery with studio
Mr. Feng once said: "Writing for me is more of a way of responsibility to society; painting for me is more of an expression and expression of my personal heart." Talking about how painting and writing affect each other, Mr. Feng said that his earliest identity should be a painter, "I have painted painting for 15 years, painting is more personal to me, more is a personal heart and life feelings, is a kind of rehearsal, a kind of expression." ”
As for literature, Mr. Feng believes that "it bears more social responsibilities, thinking about life, and understanding life with readers, which is some of my literary pursuits."
Literature and painting both influence Mr. Feng, "For example, my paintings pursue literature, poetry, and artistic conception, and painting also affects my literature." Because the commonality between painting and literature is that it is necessary to produce a visual image, to evoke an image imagination of the reader, to create a visible space for the reader, to see the characters, to see the scene, and the more vivid and concise the better. So, when I write a novel, I can see my character, and even his face has a lot of details, and I can see it, although I don't necessarily write it down, but it is important to me. ”
Mr. Feng laughed and said that he never allocates time for writing and painting, "My studio and study are at both ends of my family's porch, if there is an impulse to create literature, I will go to the study, sometimes write and write, there will be a desire to express painting, I will drill into the studio, this is a sweet round trip, I feel very happy." ”
Mr. Feng's calligraphy work "The Complete Book of Ordinary Strangers" at the beginning of the volume
This life is related to cultural heritage protection
Tied together, never loosened
Due to his age, Mr. Feng Jicai can no longer run to the front line for the protection of cultural heritage, but he said that he has been tied to the protection of cultural heritage all his life, "This will never be loosened, if I return to the age of 60 now and have physical strength, I still have to put down the novel." There are still a lot of problems in the protection of cultural heritage, and I am still anxious about the new problems that are constantly emerging, and even some dilemmas, and I still have a lot of things to do. ”
What makes Mr. Feng happy is that one of their ideas has been valued and supported by the state, "We propose to establish an intangible cultural heritage discipline in colleges and universities to cultivate professionals in the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage, the establishment of this discipline has been approved by the state, and this year we will begin to recruit the first batch of intangible cultural heritage students, so my work in this area of cultural heritage protection may be more in-depth." ”
Referring to why he was far away from literature and devoted to the protection of cultural heritage, Mr. Feng said that some people told him that it was enough to call for shouting, why did he do it himself? "When your loved ones are suddenly about to be hit by a car, do you shout? I'm going to pounce on it, that's how I feel. ”
Now when it comes to protecting Tianjin's old streets, Mr. Feng is still a little excited, "Tianjin is the only city in China that has a anniversary of its completion." December 23, 1404, was the founding day of Tianjin. In the 90s, the texture of the city was all there, and suddenly a notice was to demolish the old street, and the advertising slogan also said, 'In the future, you will be in this place, I can't think of Tianjin, but I think it is Causeway Bay in Hong Kong, I was anxious to hear it, looking for people everywhere, and then reached an agreement to keep several historical buildings in the old street.' ”
After that, Feng Ji went to France to find out how France protected Paris, and when he was in France, he was told that tianjin's oldest commercial street, Yiyi Street, had been demolished. Mr. Feng hurriedly returned from France, and the next day he went to the old street to see, "I saw that the old street was demolished, once the historical building was demolished, there was no way, reconstruction, not history at all." ”
Recalling this, Mr. Feng thanked a media report, "At that time, I stood on Laojie and cried, a reporter later wrote an article called "Feng Jicai Cries Old Street", I don't know how he was present, this article had a great impact. ”
For the rescue of folk cultural heritage, Mr. Feng once sold paintings to raise funds, and he admitted that he could not solve the problem by selling paintings by himself, "When I was selling paintings, I told the reporter this sentence, and I said that I could not solve the problem with the money I sold. After 20 years of efforts, the national level 4 cultural heritage list we have now compiled is a total of 100,000 items at the county level, city level, provincial level and national level, and 6819 traditional villages. Such a large cultural heritage, what role can I sell a little painting play? One of the functions it can play is that someone must think why Feng Jicai wants to sell his paintings? I think it makes sense to wake up people's thinking on this issue. When I sold out of the Suzhou Museum, I had a feeling of four walls of home, there was a sense of tragedy at that time, and then I said that men always want to have something magnificent when they do things, and I think this sense of tragedy is that I gave my heart to the earth. ”
Previously, Mr. Feng had mentioned that "the last major thing I took over in my life was education", in his view, education is also in line with the protection of cultural heritage, "If in the first 20 years, I mainly did the rescue protection of cultural heritage, what I want to do today is scientific protection." These cultural heritages that we have rescued, if there is no protection standard, no norms, no professional talents, we are still not at ease with it. Therefore, in the university, we must open the education of intangible cultural heritage, and we must incorporate it into the system of higher education. ”
After 20 years of separation from literature, there are too many things to write
Now after returning to literature, Feng Ji can be described as a prolific writer, in addition to "The Strange Man of the World", "Study A World", etc., this year with "Studio a Cave Sky" published together with "Danube Gorge", which is the end of Mr. Feng's five new novellas. Among them, "Danube Gorge" tells the bitter love of a young man and woman, interrogating life and exploring fate; "Dry Well" records the secrets of the soul that people pour out when they are on the verge of desperation, exploring the theme of repentance; "Lame Cat" analyzes the complex life and emotional world behind the brilliance of the female host of the TV station; "Wooden Buddha" uses the self-description of the Wooden Buddha as a narrative perspective to criticize the value-distorted cultural relics market and the identification world; "I Am Jason" revolves around the protagonist's amnesia and search for memory, and the ending is unexpected. The five stories have twists and turns, and compared with previous works, they introduce factors such as fantasy, fantasy, and adventure in real reality.
Talking about the creation of novels, Mr. Feng said that although he has been separated from literature for 20 years, he has never left literature in the sense of writing, "Because I love literature, my passion for literature seems to be innate, and I feel that the love of literature and art is nature." When I have a passion for life, I must express it in words, that is, the nature of people who are engaged in literature; when I must use pen and ink to express with color, that is, the nature of people who engage in painting. I now have time to write, a lot of things come rushing in, and even a few ideas will come at the same time, because there is too much time to suppress in the past, and 20 years of life has accumulated too much, seen too much, and knows too much. ”
When doing cultural heritage rescue work, Mr. Feng said that he often had literary impulses and literary imaginations, "but I can't write because I don't have time." The most I imagined in literature was when the earth was running, from this place to that place, especially at night in a car listening to music, and walking from this province to that province for hours, or even longer. On the way, the literary imagination suddenly came out, thinking about it, and the driver master said: 'Teacher Feng, we have arrived.' The novel is gone, interrupted, power outaged, gone, and the imagination in the future cannot be connected, this is the literary life of my period, there is no time to write. ”
Mr. Feng laughed and said that at that time, when he saw his contemporaries or young people publishing new books, he would feel a little bitter in his heart, "but that's all, because I know that it is too important for me to do cultural heritage rescue, and I must do it, I can't choose." ”
Now returning to literature, Mr. Feng said that unlike writing 20 years ago, he feels that literature should also have an important mission, "that is, to leave an aesthetic image for literature, your thinking about the times, your understanding of life, including philosophy, must be reflected through aesthetic images, atmospheres, and artistic conceptions." ”
Although there are too many materials that he wants to write, Mr. Feng said that no matter what he writes, he insists on two points, one is to write literature as a work of art, "the so-called work of art is aesthetic value," and the other is language, "I think that no matter how passionate you are when you write, or how surging your emotions are, the language of the novel should be refined in the end, which is particularly important and is also the tradition of Chinese literature." I wrote "The Strange Man" very quickly, but I changed it many times, and when I felt that the language was not good, I did not dare to let go. ”
Why can Mr. Feng always meet "strange people", there are always so many materials and stories to write, while too many people complain that life is too boring and boring, and every day is monotonously repeated? Mr. Feng believes that the main reason is that "material things fill our lives too much, and if our lives are a little more spiritual pursuit and yearning, our lives will not be repeated." If there is no spiritual interaction between people, every day is to eat, and it is not interesting to eat after a week."
Mr. Feng believes that the richness of people mainly comes from the spirit, "I write I know that the poorer I am, the more I imagine, the greater the space for imagination, so I think this is probably not only a problem that writers should pay attention to, but also a social problem, our current society is a heavy material era, often easy to despise life with spiritual value." I think we have to recognize the value of spirituality in our lives. ”
I wish I had a little more time,
Because there are so many things I want to do
When he was 50 years old, Mr. Feng painted a large piece of tree, "It is already autumn, but the sun shines through, the leaves are shining, this is a period of brilliant life, 50 years old I entered such a period." When I was 60 years old, I painted a painting called "Pride Is Still There", I painted the middle of a big river, a boat raising its sails, and at that time I just started to do folk cultural heritage rescue, I needed a force, so I painted such a picture. I'm 80 years old this year, and I'm a week away, and I don't know what emotions will be there at that time. ”
Old Husband and Wife, 1991
Autumn Whispers, 2013
Mr. Feng also paints with his wife on their wedding anniversaries every year, "We had an emerald wedding last year, and we celebrated our 55th wedding anniversary. Every wedding anniversary, it was the two of us who painted a picture and a pair of birds. It started as early as the most difficult time in the sixties and seventies, because my wife also painted, and we painted a pair of birds together in the snow and wind, and I still have that painting. Later we have been painting birds, and the scenery is constantly changing, which has a lot to do with our feelings about life. ”
Although he loves to paint, but because of too little time, Mr. Feng can only squeeze the personal hobby of painting, "I have not painted much in the past two years, I often have ideas about painting in my heart, I paint these ideas on the draft books around me, I have a lot of drafts around me, every table." For example, if I write a character and I have a feeling in my head, I will draw it. I'm short of time right now, and I wish I had a little more time because I wanted to do so much. ”
80 years old, why do you still keep yourself so busy, Mr. Feng said the answer is "love". He laughs and says that he feels that his psychological age is between 50 and 60 years old, "Thinking is not as good as fifty or sixty years old, but it is OK, imagination, sensitivity to things are OK." Writing and painting are both needs in my heart, mainly from love, love for the aesthetic creation of words, love for the unexpected unique image and artistic conception that appears in pen and ink Danqing. ”
In contrast, Mr. Feng believes that the rescue of cultural heritage needs something more rational, "we must make people realize its value and significance, this meaning and value is not personal, it is national, and the more we protect one thing today, our descendants will have more of it." But it is also inseparable from love, if you do not love your own culture, where do you come from the consciousness of culture? If you don't have cultural self-awareness, where do you get cultural self-confidence? Only self-awareness has self-confidence, and there are many rational things that we need to keep learning, so until now, learning is still a big task for me. ”